unfortunately in my case, looks like drive is pretty much dead… not too bad for a drive almost 5 years old.

its pretty typical of a WD green drive in its default config to die in this type of environment, no plans to replace it with a similar type drive. You can see below the incredibly high LCC count which indicates the drive header has parked this many times over its life. This is probably part of the problem – there is a tool you can run (check this vid, link for WDIDDLE3 also in comments – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2eYyRI_F98) which disables the intellipark feature of the green drive. I never disabled the park timeout before this drive died (which defaults to 8 seconds!) — note: i have disabled it completely on my other green drives.

I have disabled intellipark on the rest of my green drives (since they are close to 5 years and probably near failure). I have some new RED drives which i have increased the time out to 300 seconds. (most come with 300 sec timeout, but older firmware is at 8 seconds). From what I’ve been reading there is no physical difference between WD red and green drives, only the firmware differs. So if you are going to put some green drives into a NAS / RAID or Server environment ensure you run wdidle3 and either disable or change timeout on intellipark to 300 seconds. (then its pretty close to a red drive)